BEST, WALTER HENRY, Private, No. 135929, Army Service Corps, eldest s. of Walter Henry Best, of 6. Tottenham Road, Kingsland, Dalston, N., by his wife, Annie, dau. of Cornelius Murphy; b. Islington, London, N.; educ. Tottenham County Council School; enlisted in Aug. 1915; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders, and was killed in action 1 Sept. 1918. Buried eight miles west of Arras. Major H. J. M. Howard wrote: “Your boy was a great favourite with all, and it was doing his duty so well, thinking of others, that he laid down his life.” Unm.
Source : De Ruvigny’s Roll Of Honour Vol 5